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A "computer engineer" is someone who designs microprocessors and physical computational hardware - not software. (And for the laity, it is not someone who fixes your broken desktop PC either).

Even if you meant SE instead of CE, I feel your distinction is arbitrary and almost classist - while it's true that the top notch folks hired by Google and Microsoft could write "bean counting programs" its fallacious to assume the contrarywise - major accounting and business software firms are just as picky when it comes to hiring - similarly I know plenty of small startups writing exotic software that are able to ship without needing to hire everyone from MIT an Stanford - I also know plenty of very intelligent and capable minds going to waste at companies like Google, MSFT and Facebook working on projects they dislike or for low-impact internal systems - while their contemporaries who went to a coding boot camp got picked up by Snapitterbook and become hot stuff despite never having read the Mythical Man-Month.